I don't know if that's really true of Genshin Impact or if that will be true for this game, unless you're the kind of gamer that really aims for absolute completion
@@admirallove6180 Nah it's definitely true for genshin. There are aspects of the game made to intentionally frustrate you and push you to purchase (i.e. resin gating and drip feeding primos). Not saying it's a bad game, but this aspect of it, it can do without
@@darthran but how come p2p help you being better cuz in the end its pvE ,so money jst get u characters and there is no competition so i dont think anyone need to spends money to get better.
I like your point about MMOs needing less group content to survive. I like the social aspect of MMOs, in that I like doing dungeons, I like doing raids, and I like talking to people, but I am typically playing at times that nobody else is, generally before work, so I appreciate games that are “solo story” driven with optional group content.
@@lewismackay9533 there are always group stuff available and the content is way more fun with other people that's a big point of an MMO you may as well just play a single player game if that is the experience you want
Agree 100. I love group stuff too, heck I met my SO in an mmo. But gating required or story content behind grouping is silly. Forcing someone to group, or for that matter forcing them to play solo, isn't good IMHO. I like options.
it's not true for tower of fantasy, it gives you chance to gather a few ssr while being f2p, in first few days you get 3. first from 30 pity. second from 80 pity and third from event.
i think for it to be called a proper MMO, it shoud be the other way around, a group content with optional solo story. This game lacks a proper group content
14:44 whilst i agree that group content shouldn't be forced upon players, the option to do it, even at low levels, should be there. In wow whilst leveling you aren't forced to do the group quests but is rewarded if you do. You aren't forced to do dungeons, but it makes the leveling experience easier in the long run.
@@chrisandrews9856 I think a lot of it is the whole “ the older you get the less time you have” thing. I’ve tried playing classic and I just don’t have the time for all the waiting around to get a group to do stuff. For me, and I’m sure this is an unpopular opinion, the random Dungeon finder was the best thing to happen to the game. I have a full time job with lots of OT and a wife. I just don’t have the kind of time it used to take play that game. Edit: Based off of what I’ve heard about the old days of WoW and how it is currently, it really does seem like Blizzard is more conscious of our time
@@chrisandrews9856 he has stated many times in his stream of the aging and changing state of the audience. He himself has said that he falls into this group and is not a young teenager anymore with time to waste.
I don't want a game that forces me to join groups/communities, I already have a fuckton of friend groups and only some of them play those games too but not always when I do, I dont want to make a bunch of new friends that I only ever talk to when I actively play the game, for casual players it just doenst make sense.
the guy in the video has it completely wrong you can equip the weapons you get from the gacha characters also and play only as your character if you wish. ontop of the the halberd/first hero is given to you via a quest along with the duel blades early on.
He's probably not wrong AT THE TIME, the guy reviewing the game made this video a month ago when it was still being tested before launch, some things probably just weren't added then.
@@begonestink2956 nah he was wrong cause there’s a China version that part of the game is all the same. He is however doing first react/fresh eyes on the game, I think they should maybe hammer that home a bit more. I feel like I’m playing in menus a little to much
It's amazing that there are enough MMOs that you can react to a new one every day and still have fresh content. How are these games getting enough of an audience to break even? I would say I think he's being a little short-sighted about the male creation options. There are all sorts of people that will want to make their alter ego whatever the Japanese word for attractive guy is.
They are derivative and easy to mass produce, nothing in this game is new or unique, the eastern mmo factories make a new one of these every other year and make all their money on whales.
27:13 and 28:51 That is why i like Asmond, he just speaks without trying to hurt anyone and at the same time not giving a sh*t how everyone feels.. Kudos to you my guy. lol
I pre registered for Tower of Fantasy like a month ago and then completely forgot about it🤣 Trailers looked decent enough, though it basically looks like a Genshin clone in a different setting. Probably gonna be fun til you reach the end and then it becomes a tiresome daily grind for little to no currency to push you into gacha. I'd play it for the base experience, but not on mobile. And since I don't play on PC, this is a skip, unless it releases on console as well. PS: But even without knowing the intricacies of the game, you can already tell that if it's even close to Genshin, it will be 100x better than Diablo Immortal...
its very different from GI :0 ....genshin is probably more close to a mobile game while this doesn't have that mobile game part of giving you stamina to do any activities so you don't have to actually play it everyday to get rewards its more close to mmos since you see other players aswell in the world
@@marzialalfonzocanada888 yeah, it definitely feels like a lot is different compared to Genshin gameplay and mechanics wise. Shame it's not on console, otherwise I'd definitely give it a shot.
Same lol I was surprised to see it was available. Not spending a cent on it. I play it on my phone connected to a screen and controller, honestly not worth it unless you want to know what the story is about. Also the English voice acting (I'm not about subtitles) is hogwash
@@0Charb True, but that is more for late game experience in MMO's if you just playing it for the base experience of combat/story it likely will give you quite some hours of content to enjoy and then delete.
what i found out recently, motion blur actually helps and allows for more smooth game play. but yeah as you said there is usually a check mark and higher end PC's dont need it
I dont think that we are moving towards a future with only p2w mmos. There will allways be a crowd that refuses to play those games (and more people will join that crowd for everytime we see predatory systems like Diablo Immortal pvp), and someone will want to earn their money the old fashion way through selling the game and/or subscriptions and cosmetics.
Nah, the future of triple A games will be like this. If there's no law deciding what okay and what's not. Old timer gamers that want original games can only hope from indie games
@@cryptotic5257 totally agree. I basically stopped playing videogames these days, but only because there is non that interrest me at all because everything is p2w. I think the current situation is a bubble and the gamingcompanies are farming it as hard as they can before it bursts. When that happens is up to the gamers, but I wouldnt be surprised to see a huge drop in players overall soon.
I''m from Brazil and we are a poor country, and US Dollar cost 5,13 BRL. It's too expensive, i'd say almost impossible for many player to earn something just playing the game
Maybe it's just the "new game" factor, but the double jumping etc. look really cool. It being so much like Genshin would make getting into it pretty easy I imagine. I just wish it was on consoles like Genshin. Literally the only reason I won't play ToF as I would need to play on a phone and I don't like playing exploration games on it, not to mention Honkai Impact 3rd is already destroying my phone's battery. I'm glad it exists though, just so Genshin has some competition.
Well after playing some of this today I can say this certainly isn’t going to kill Genshin anytime soon. If anything it made me more excited for Sumeru lol
13:35 if at any point in time, you cant have a group of 50+ players randomly run passed you while you are doing something in an open world area, its not an mmo mmo in my definition is people are able to be everywhere outside of certain spots, and the problem with mmos is they tend to work better when you make those certain sports the norm so the game is even less mmo then normal. lets take guild wars as an example. the meta for guild wars is not open world its instances, however massive 100+ person battles in the open world still happen, to me this is what makes an mmo an mmo.
14:30 you make them mandatory group you loose people who dont want to play like that, you remove the mandatory group you no longer have a game thats fun damned if you do damned if you dont I think games should focus on 2 man teams, have a menchanic for you to have an npc fill that roll, and have 4-6 people in a group, and be able to fill a group with 3 people and 3npcs if you are hurting. this makes it easy to gear content to be a bit more difficult, gives players enough backup to be able to do content, and when content actually gets hard, group up with real players to fill roles npcs just dont do well in.
@@GeorgeMonet forgot to put 2 at the end of it but yea, guild wars 2 is great for this, but if you aren't on the current world boss track, you don't see other players often, even in more recent content. kind of sad given the whole game was built around that concept, but most people who play daily likely already have everything done for that content.
This does not look like an MMO to me... it looks like another BoW style gacha game with optional online services (which is the same thing Genshin was when it came out and people were calling that an MMO too)
@@joshholmes1372 you could say that yeah, but from a loot box perspective that's correct, though gachapon's name has been tarnished by many games, the "gotcha money" term doesn't apply to most gacha games as many of these types of games follow gachapon style mechanics than loot box style mechanics which happens to be how some gacha games name theirs. Genshin is one game that follows the original gachapon style mechanics, sure each product they sell is in fact expensive, the point of gacha is to gamble to get the product cheaper than the asking price. Hence the pity system.
@@ArjentaSilverwing except it's all arbitrary and they have designed systems to make it addictive and use psychological principles to trick/confuse/encourage users to spend money. At the end of the day, it's up to the consumer to make that choice and they are a company that's out to make money. Just predatory in nature by definition, as most gambling economies are. The game play of genshin was pretty fun when I tried it and the world was beautiful. I did not like feeling gated or the subtle urge to spend to get the cool characters. Also felt very repetitive
@@GeorgeMonet after spending 40 hrs on it. The combat is a little jank, especially from the enemies and bosses. The dodge mechanic is almost required to perform when taking on big groups of enemies so that way you could slow them all down
It's funny listening to how asmon will advocate for the casual player in other games, but then vehemently defend blizzard removing the RDF in wrath classic
Whenever i go back to windwaker and play it for some hours, i can't believe how "new" it feels like it just looks good anytime even tho it's already such an old game. Just amazing
people keep saying this game is pushing boundaries and I just dont see it name one big innovation Tower of Fantasy has to the gacha formula or even just action RPG's
Pre registration doesnt mean players or people though, people often create multiple accounts for gacha games and then keep whichever one had the best beginning rolls (because rewards are heavioly front loaded)
The best way I can describe this game is that it plays like how Genshin haters think Genshin plays like. The combat is super clunky, the audio isn't configured correctly and warps, the movement is clunky, the camera is clunky. The game was heavily marketed as a Genshin killer in the early days but it is nowhere close in quality or refinement or passion, coming from a former Genshin player.
Genshin is clunky garbage. Gameplay feels like ass and gacha is much worse in genshin. Whale game that doesn't even have PvP. This game is far from perfect. The audio is really screwed up pretty often and there's a good amount of bugs.. but it's got time. Not even full release and it's more enjoyable than genshin.
I played this last night and its pretty fun. Yeah its a gacha system but they give you stuff for almost anything so 10 minutes of playing and then you realize you have enough for 10 rolls. Never played genshin so I cannot compare but its a solid 8/10 from me right now.
Yeah, but this game has actually 3 different gacha banners. Purple (low tier), Golden (mid tier) and Red (top tier). Most gachas just have 2 currencies for banners, this actually has 3
Every gacha game that I've played so far is very generous at the start to give you a sense that it's going to be like that for the entirety of the game's lifespan. Im not saying the game is bad but the generosity at the start is very common.
Except it's not just early on. I've played to the current level cap and yes it does slow down, but if you keep at it and explore the zones then you'll find that you'll literally be generating the gacha currency just by opening chests or finding it tucked away in places. It's really not that hard at all to get the gacha currency in this game, although the red-tier gacha is much harder to get normally when compared to the purple and yellow tier.
@@navyblustick7758 But do the chests respawn? Exploring is a fine way to generate gacha currency except for the fact that it's a limited resource. Once you've explored everything (will take a long time considering the size of the game mind you) then that way to get gacha currency is gone. Unless they continually add more regions but other than that you'll have to rely on events the game will (idk if it's for certain but I hope it will) have to give you a decent amount where you don't feel left behind as an f2p. Note: Before anyone takes it the wrong way, I'm not saying the game should spoil us generously with the currency. It's a free game so they have to make money somehow, I expect and am ok with the fact they might be a bit reserved when they give it out for free. All I'm saying is I don't want f2p's struggling to clear content while the p2w can clear it no problem.
pre-reg to get the rewards, then piss off for a month and see if its not DOA or leveraging all of its value on FOMO. played it for about an hour, kind of left me feeling meh. the intro didn't greatly impress me, forgetable characters, no clear motivation for why you're there or why I should be interested in playing to find out. The VA is decent; but the mixing and editing is terrible, with sentences getting clipped off and the text not matching the voice lines. The combat movement is good, but the animations feel a bit jank overall. The aesthetic is good and the colors pop, but it feels like the actual texture resolution is sub-par (looks kinda...i dunno...muddy?). the music and sound design were way to extra. dont need to bring out the horns for every little thing, and once again the mixing was terribad. overall it just left me feeling like I was playing a really well put together asset flip. hard to describe, felt kinda souless? 100% feels like a mobile game with PC characteristics, rather than full PC release that happens to run on mobile.
The only reason I love MMOs is because the worlds are massive, the content is massive. I love games like Zelda botw and Witcher, Elden ring etc. But they are all small in comparison to MMOs. For me my dream would be a single player mmo lol. Like wow but scaled for single players, raids for single players etc. Wow is probably the biggest rpg world ever made, there’s no other game with that much content. Most open world games get like 1 dlc or 2 and are done and the great thing about MMOs is that we get content for years, the only bad thing is it’s a multiplayer
@@fingermi7571 true. But usually the good gacha games only have that come into play in two ways. 1. Pvp. And 2. Progression. Afk arena for example. You can never spend a cent and do perfectly fine in most of the game.
@@animewarrior3 True also. There are exceptions. There are also a handful of (mostly older) games I've seen that literally sold gear in their cash shops lol. So it can also become egregious. I think for the most part, what we see now leans more towards that side than the side of Afk Arena, and it's unfortunate.
I like genshin impact and I just knew Tower of Fantasy wasn't gonna be it for me. Let me say it wasn't fun at all. I mean the only nice thing about it was the character customization
The game makes me appreciate genshin even more. If 2 years later since genshin's release none other games (who were claimed to be genshin killer) achieved the same level of quality, it says something about the amount of effort put into it.
right, comparing the choose gender screen from GI and ToF make it painful obvious. ToF choose to show their face which look like a default game model emotionless face while escape their near death situation it look stiff as stone
They copied so much of Genshin and so obviously that just looking at it was embarrassing. Then again, I've heard that in China they have no qualms copying or even plagiarizing other IPs, after all, Genshin "borrowed" a lot from Zelda BotW
@@RisqueBisquetz Lot of very good company didn't practice that and manage to pull very interesting looking one but they have so many company in China and trash one is very common. ToF company look like one. It easy to spot one really just look at their game name it leaked of old mindset with common naming pattern. You will find this kind of bland name that offer no uniqueness in very weak MMORPG That why they hop on Genshin train early on.
19:30 Borderlands 2 MIGHT be the best FPS I've played since Halo 1. And Handsome Jack might just be my all time fave antagonist! If Halo and Diablo 2 had a kid, with OG WoW talent Trees, That's Borderlands 2. I suggest a steam deal on the Handsome Jack collection! Plus the views you'd get! o-0
Hit lvl 27 today, so far the gacha mechanics aren't too bad. Two things really hurting the experience for me though. 1. Some bosses are just terrible. Frost Bot has a spin where he freezes those around him. You can break people out of it using fire-weapons. However, the aoe on the freeze feels like it's half the arena... it's just far too big. 2. Some exploration mechanics are time-locked. Pods, for instance, are spheres that contain loot and can only be looted a single per account. Some pods won't unlock for several RL days making you not want to do _any_ exploration until all the locks in a zone are over. I think the starter zone fully unlocks by tomorrow, but the second zone fully unlocks in about 50 more hours.
Yeah Frostbot's freeze seems to be a mechanics intended to punish the group for failing the dps check, but then there's also the problem of not enough time thawing people out of the one-shot freeze, why even put it in the first place if there's barely anytime to do it.
Hey mate its actually really cool how they set up the world like with the slowdown time if you notice the dome over the character its only slowed in that dome thats how it gets around other players near by :D
I say just play PUNISHING: GRAY RAVEN. That game is really freaking fun and F2P friendly. Combat is so freaking fun, kinda got addicted to that alone, it hasn't eaten and destroyed my wallet. But this does look like fun and really responsive combat, hopefully you won't NEED to spend too much in comparison to F2P to make sure you progress at a proper rate and keep up with your friends. Some of my friends be whales. Maybe I can be a whale too soon, Scored a new higher paying job. Good vid.
PGR is incomparable to open world gacha games. They are entirely different experiences. Neither is better than the other, but you really can't compare PGR's level based gameplay to this can you?
@@shogun897 I used to play honkai way back when, but felt like I wanted to be strong, and becoming strong at the time with my impatience costed me a pretty penny for a bit. So I stopped playing as a means of controlling myself.
@@Rhyhmx been playing for 2 months got the whole nier team and signature weapon for A2 + got enough to get another S tier character but waiting for banners. It's the most f2p friendly gacha i have played
MMO and single player are massively different, the cater to different players, they do things vastly differently. Also their priorities are different, balances ( Genshin balanced only ONCE and it was because people were little crybabies that their fave character isnt DPS, but support )
Will someone tell Asmon that right now there is no point in making online games in UE5 do to the processing demands it puts on PCs and mmo need to be playable on as many machines as possible, otherwise you will have same issues NW had where people couldn't even play the game.
@@rajendradiaz2308 Yes basically, UE5 gives devs more "power" to create but also a lot more things to be rendered per object, same thing happened with UE4 that is why some games are only now changing to it (UE4).
14:00 Yeah agreed, do I want a cool raid with multiple people all who are good enough to do the ecounters, you get along with, have fun etc...absolutely. Do I also want to deal with the BS of finding groups, having to teach people, people who can't take responsibility for their own mess ups, toxic players etc...absolutely not, give me a single player version of the activity.
Yeah it is hard for me to even play a mmo without a public dungeon que after playing xiv and how they handle dungeons and raids to enter a game now without that is a quit consideration for me. Especially if they lock the advance gear progression behind dungeons and raids.
The servers on latino america are crap, for me a game in 2022, have no escuse to have crap servers, but i think even with good internet, no, the combat is the same as honokai and the rest is genshin
Tower of Fantasy is made by a different company than Genshin Impact but it is “inspired” by a mobile game that the Genshin company (miHoYo) also made which is called Honkai Impact 3rd. The latter is mobile only and is probably this game’s main competitor or vice versa.
So far so good. Have only played it for several hours and already got those 5 star characters... But time will tell if those 5 stars that are easy to get at the start become nerfed in favour of harder to get characters or if levelling the characters is difficult
Prolly targeting Genshin players who are tired of waiting for new content. And sense those players already like genshin they are pretty much predisposed to likeing tower of fantasy since it is so similar. Plus i think people said the same thing of Genshin comparing it to Zelda breath of the wild and that did not stop it from becoming obscenely popular and to make disgusting amounts of money
I played the game for a while... but the lack of people wanting to do what I needed to do was a killing point. Fun game but no incentive to join people for stuff... felt worse than soloing d2-3 start to finish.. was perty but boring.
Right so I checked the website and oh look premium currencies, "up to 59 draws" sounds like gatcha pulls and some random cosmetics. That's a no from me.
BBut honokai has better combar, i dont know why because honokai in mi phone run smooth and fast in these one, runs like crap, lagg an totaly slow, no, i dont like it, HOnoka run much much better and smooth the only moments i have problems with lag in honokai, was in some events, but some review said that the story mode run ok but new events dont, also acording to some review honokai run better some years ago compare with now
@@alexandrebelair4360 Yes i know, that is why when i finish testing genshing yes i install, the suppose best mobile gatcha game in mobile, and i see why, yes credit where credit is due, yes Tower of Fantasy, is more grafically demanding and looks amaizing, it is beautifull, yes, Honokai and Genshin are not, Genshing dont have the same texture and also Genshing is not an MMO, is a single player open world, and that is why Genshing is better, it can run smooth, and is not complex, Tower of fantasy needs the best and last phones to work its main audience, and it requires the best to run smooth, so if they have sacrifice grafic for fluidity, would have better i dont care if the game looks amaizing if it goes with lag
Genshin end game is legit, grind dungeons for perfect rolls to then again do it for another character pretty much...While I won't say this is better game wise..This seems to have a wayy better endgame and multiplayer overall. So just the multiplayer on it's own is a good reason to play this over genshin.. And I love genshin but it got to the point of nothing to do but dailies every day while I wait the 2 months for new content.
@@Krysnha It's a free to play mmo anime gacha... It Will NOT die in a month. At the least, it will die in 2 years unless they don't update it at all. Genshin will continue to thrive just like this will. This has more to do than Genshin ever thought of. (As a player with 800 hours on that) Edit: Compared to Genshin's restrictive multiplayer aspect, this one is leagues better on multiplayer aspect which will keep some players.
@@Swat6249 bro this game literally died within a week in China, I was day 1 cn player and I dropped the game within a month. The official of this game in bilibili has its follower dropped from over a million to 850k within 2 weeks after it released and still maintain that number today. This is no genshin quality nor genshin killer by any means.
@@eugene2245 im actually interested to try out this game, can you tell me some reason why you drop this game? And what makes it inferior to genshin? Let us hear your opinion as a day 1 player in full
The game will be hype for now but maybe 2-3 months later it will slowly die down caz it hardcore heavy game. I won’t be playing it because it has pvp in there which means there are meta and unbalance characters which also means p2w if u don’t have the characters that are the current meta once they go away. One of the reason why I hate about about lost ark and stop playing not because of the p2w aspects but because of the classes are not balance at all.
But you can just not play the PVP tho. I agree that the PVP is most likely gonna be p2w, but it's not forced on you. I think the reward for the bottom rank and the top rank is 100 and 500 crystals, it's hardly worth it to push just for the reward unless you actually enjoy the PVP. I don't see why it's become the reason to not play the game, I think it's just a small part of the game. Unless you also don't like the rest of the game too, then it's fair.
Yea i enjoy MMOs but because they are expensive to make there really hasn't been much deviation on how it's done in decades or a few outliers that are garbage that didn't have a proper budget to begin with.
Much better than Genshin for me. I like that we can make a character. And I'd much rather just play my character then swap between pre set game characters.
The characters look like fish out of water honestly, this cyberpunk design doesn't match this landscapes full of nature. I'd expect a futuristic city...
@@csseldne2326 so? It's the system of most gachas Nevertheless tof doesn't have such a well-written story, massive lore, endearing characters, unique and diverse environmental design, amazing music. Genshin does have all of this, every detail matters in genshin. Combat system in tof is also not very comfortable, quite boring even... Genshin's one is far superior. So.....
@@mailadelrosario9462 The gimmick I'm referring to is not having male or female MC. It's having a short action sequence with an explosion set up the premise in the game where the male and female MC get blown away and separated, asking you to pick one.
I'm just guessing but is this made by the same company that made genshin? The terrain of the world, the textures of the world the power progression system, visual effects, dungeon system all look exactly like genshin.
I play the game for two hours, is very mid, i dont know if was a bug, but the FPS drop like crazy, which is funny when i can run RDR2 without a problem.
Test it, mi phone can run Honokai impact no problem, and is two years old, and these thing in a server, that was low, maybe they didint put as much intrest in south american server, but lag, choopy, the combat is no where near as good as honokai, is not bad, but these high launching a game that is not optimal in all the servers is not good
Now i cant say im F2P since i bought the battlepass. But honestly if one does not have a constant urge to spend money, its actually a fine game to put a few hours a day, and it certainly scratches that itch of completionist for me, tho i find the timegating annoying yet understand why it is implemented, because there are people would would nolife it and clear the entire game in two days :D. tho a F2P player should not expect to have all the best items, and be top tier in pvp, in pve as well naturally a whale will carry a f2p and would be higher dps, this is a gatcha game IT IS P2W thats the whole thing the game is made around. still its a fine game to sink some hour in till something else comes out, and maybe maaaaybe stick around if it does not get worse.
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The reason why p2w is a turn off for me is that it's nearly a guarantee that the base experience is intentionally made frustrating to push purchases.
I don't know if that's really true of Genshin Impact or if that will be true for this game, unless you're the kind of gamer that really aims for absolute completion
@@Rhyhmx this is tru
@@RhyhmxYea there is a lot of good gacha games with great systems unlike diablo immortal
@@admirallove6180 Nah it's definitely true for genshin. There are aspects of the game made to intentionally frustrate you and push you to purchase (i.e. resin gating and drip feeding primos). Not saying it's a bad game, but this aspect of it, it can do without
@@darthran but how come p2p help you being better cuz in the end its pvE ,so money jst get u characters and there is no competition so i dont think anyone need to spends money to get better.
I like your point about MMOs needing less group content to survive. I like the social aspect of MMOs, in that I like doing dungeons, I like doing raids, and I like talking to people, but I am typically playing at times that nobody else is, generally before work, so I appreciate games that are “solo story” driven with optional group content.
@@lewismackay9533 there are always group stuff available and the content is way more fun with other people that's a big point of an MMO you may as well just play a single player game if that is the experience you want
Agree 100. I love group stuff too, heck I met my SO in an mmo. But gating required or story content behind grouping is silly. Forcing someone to group, or for that matter forcing them to play solo, isn't good IMHO. I like options.
Play FFXIV :)
it's not true for tower of fantasy, it gives you chance to gather a few ssr while being f2p, in first few days you get 3. first from 30 pity. second from 80 pity and third from event.
i think for it to be called a proper MMO, it shoud be the other way around, a group content with optional solo story. This game lacks a proper group content
14:44 whilst i agree that group content shouldn't be forced upon players, the option to do it, even at low levels, should be there.
In wow whilst leveling you aren't forced to do the group quests but is rewarded if you do. You aren't forced to do dungeons, but it makes the leveling experience easier in the long run.
@@chrisandrews9856 I think a lot of it is the whole “ the older you get the less time you have” thing. I’ve tried playing classic and I just don’t have the time for all the waiting around to get a group to do stuff. For me, and I’m sure this is an unpopular opinion, the random Dungeon finder was the best thing to happen to the game. I have a full time job with lots of OT and a wife. I just don’t have the kind of time it used to take play that game.
Edit: Based off of what I’ve heard about the old days of WoW and how it is currently, it really does seem like Blizzard is more conscious of our time
@@chrisandrews9856 he has stated many times in his stream of the aging and changing state of the audience. He himself has said that he falls into this group and is not a young teenager anymore with time to waste.
I don't want a game that forces me to join groups/communities, I already have a fuckton of friend groups and only some of them play those games too but not always when I do, I dont want to make a bunch of new friends that I only ever talk to when I actively play the game, for casual players it just doenst make sense.
This is not a japanese game. The game is developed by Hotta Studio in China. There owned by Perfect World Games.
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Perfect World. Now that's a name I haven't heard in ages...
Most modern gachas are from china. Japan invented gacha machines and china loves the brain hijacking potential, just like EA.
Holy shiz the flashbacks.
the guy in the video has it completely wrong you can equip the weapons you get from the gacha characters also and play only as your character if you wish. ontop of the the halberd/first hero is given to you via a quest along with the duel blades early on.
He's probably not wrong AT THE TIME, the guy reviewing the game made this video a month ago when it was still being tested before launch, some things probably just weren't added then.
@@begonestink2956 nah he was wrong cause there’s a China version that part of the game is all the same. He is however doing first react/fresh eyes on the game, I think they should maybe hammer that home a bit more. I feel like I’m playing in menus a little to much
@@begonestink2956 I played the CBT. He's wrong. You can use whatever weapon you want with whatever character you want.
Haven't spent a penny, am able to PvP fine and can't seem to put it down on PC. Wonderful game so far.
The best slow down time system I ever experienced is Bayonetta's witch time!
It's amazing that there are enough MMOs that you can react to a new one every day and still have fresh content. How are these games getting enough of an audience to break even?
I would say I think he's being a little short-sighted about the male creation options. There are all sorts of people that will want to make their alter ego whatever the Japanese word for attractive guy is.
i think the word you're looking for is ikemen, basically means a peak man
@@Anedime Maybe because even the steam tags labeled it that way? Granted they are user defined but sooooo many people go off of those tags anyway
They are derivative and easy to mass produce, nothing in this game is new or unique, the eastern mmo factories make a new one of these every other year and make all their money on whales.
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27:13 and 28:51 That is why i like Asmond, he just speaks without trying to hurt anyone and at the same time not giving a sh*t how everyone feels.. Kudos to you my guy. lol
I pre registered for Tower of Fantasy like a month ago and then completely forgot about it🤣
Trailers looked decent enough, though it basically looks like a Genshin clone in a different setting. Probably gonna be fun til you reach the end and then it becomes a tiresome daily grind for little to no currency to push you into gacha.
I'd play it for the base experience, but not on mobile. And since I don't play on PC, this is a skip, unless it releases on console as well.
PS: But even without knowing the intricacies of the game, you can already tell that if it's even close to Genshin, it will be 100x better than Diablo Immortal...
its very different from GI :0 ....genshin is probably more close to a mobile game while this doesn't have that mobile game part of giving you stamina to do any activities so you don't have to actually play it everyday to get rewards its more close to mmos since you see other players aswell in the world
@@marzialalfonzocanada888 yeah, it definitely feels like a lot is different compared to Genshin gameplay and mechanics wise. Shame it's not on console, otherwise I'd definitely give it a shot.
Same lol I was surprised to see it was available. Not spending a cent on it. I play it on my phone connected to a screen and controller, honestly not worth it unless you want to know what the story is about. Also the English voice acting (I'm not about subtitles) is hogwash
@@marzialalfonzocanada888 Mmos are riddled with dailies, weeklies etc and time gated events..
@@0Charb True, but that is more for late game experience in MMO's if you just playing it for the base experience of combat/story it likely will give you quite some hours of content to enjoy and then delete.
what i found out recently, motion blur actually helps and allows for more smooth game play. but yeah as you said there is usually a check mark and higher end PC's dont need it
I dont think that we are moving towards a future with only p2w mmos. There will allways be a crowd that refuses to play those games (and more people will join that crowd for everytime we see predatory systems like Diablo Immortal pvp), and someone will want to earn their money the old fashion way through selling the game and/or subscriptions and cosmetics.
Nah, the future of triple A games will be like this. If there's no law deciding what okay and what's not. Old timer gamers that want original games can only hope from indie games
@@rajendradiaz2308 Wrong... There is no way that no gamingcompanies will want to tap into a market when there is lots of money to be made.
@@rajendradiaz2308 did you look into that cristal ball that you shit last night and you got the delusion you can see the future???
@@cryptotic5257 totally agree. I basically stopped playing videogames these days, but only because there is non that interrest me at all because everything is p2w.
I think the current situation is a bubble and the gamingcompanies are farming it as hard as they can before it bursts. When that happens is up to the gamers, but I wouldnt be surprised to see a huge drop in players overall soon.
I''m from Brazil and we are a poor country, and US Dollar cost 5,13 BRL. It's too expensive, i'd say almost impossible for many player to earn something just playing the game
They had a huge booth at Anime Expo 2022. I took pictures with the makers of it. The makers and owners told me its like Gensen but has more
Maybe it's just the "new game" factor, but the double jumping etc. look really cool. It being so much like Genshin would make getting into it pretty easy I imagine. I just wish it was on consoles like Genshin. Literally the only reason I won't play ToF as I would need to play on a phone and I don't like playing exploration games on it, not to mention Honkai Impact 3rd is already destroying my phone's battery.
I'm glad it exists though, just so Genshin has some competition.
Well after playing some of this today I can say this certainly isn’t going to kill Genshin anytime soon. If anything it made me more excited for Sumeru lol
Genshin will die on its own no need to have a genshin killer lol
@@victordelacruz4449 mate it's one of the most grossing games out there. It won't die out on its own, unless Hoyoverse decides to shutdown it.
Tbh I find it ridiculous that people were calling tof "the genshin killer"
Same, genshin being single player actually makes FMO less looming. I can tackle it at my own pace without spending, and I love it for that.
@@victordelacruz4449 Lmao you bet. Each new character genshin release is usually making big stonk
13:35 if at any point in time, you cant have a group of 50+ players randomly run passed you while you are doing something in an open world area, its not an mmo
mmo in my definition is people are able to be everywhere outside of certain spots, and the problem with mmos is they tend to work better when you make those certain sports the norm so the game is even less mmo then normal. lets take guild wars as an example. the meta for guild wars is not open world its instances, however massive 100+ person battles in the open world still happen, to me this is what makes an mmo an mmo.
14:30 you make them mandatory group you loose people who dont want to play like that, you remove the mandatory group you no longer have a game thats fun
damned if you do damned if you dont
I think games should focus on 2 man teams, have a menchanic for you to have an npc fill that roll, and have 4-6 people in a group, and be able to fill a group with 3 people and 3npcs if you are hurting. this makes it easy to gear content to be a bit more difficult, gives players enough backup to be able to do content, and when content actually gets hard, group up with real players to fill roles npcs just dont do well in.
GW2 allows for some big multi stage open world events where lots of players can participate at once.
@@GeorgeMonet forgot to put 2 at the end of it but yea, guild wars 2 is great for this, but if you aren't on the current world boss track, you don't see other players often, even in more recent content. kind of sad given the whole game was built around that concept, but most people who play daily likely already have everything done for that content.
This does not look like an MMO to me... it looks like another BoW style gacha game with optional online services (which is the same thing Genshin was when it came out and people were calling that an MMO too)
This is a console game heading in the direction of an MMO, where as MMOs are heading in the direction of console games
Compared to Genshin's restrictive ass multiplayer aspect, this one is leagues better on multiplayer aspect TBH.
@@saceurai6629 Because Genshin Impact is single player, story driven Jrpg with limited multiplayer elements, PSO2 is a far more comparable game to ToF
@@saceurai6629 Because... it's an MMO. Why do you think it's called massively multiplayer online?
@@rillu3776 it's not, it's single player with some mmo features
genshin is not mmo.. genshin is a single player online game..
edit: genshin is a single player online gacha game..
I was very intrigued until he said gatcha weapons.
it's Gacha from the word Gachapon not "Gotcha".
@@ArjentaSilverwing might as well be gotcha though, from the term "gotcha money" and "gotcha bitch".
@@joshholmes1372 you could say that yeah, but from a loot box perspective that's correct, though gachapon's name has been tarnished by many games, the "gotcha money" term doesn't apply to most gacha games as many of these types of games follow gachapon style mechanics than loot box style mechanics which happens to be how some gacha games name theirs. Genshin is one game that follows the original gachapon style mechanics, sure each product they sell is in fact expensive, the point of gacha is to gamble to get the product cheaper than the asking price. Hence the pity system.
@@ArjentaSilverwing except it's all arbitrary and they have designed systems to make it addictive and use psychological principles to trick/confuse/encourage users to spend money. At the end of the day, it's up to the consumer to make that choice and they are a company that's out to make money. Just predatory in nature by definition, as most gambling economies are. The game play of genshin was pretty fun when I tried it and the world was beautiful. I did not like feeling gated or the subtle urge to spend to get the cool characters. Also felt very repetitive
@@ArjentaSilverwing 100% meant gotcha, as in gotcha bitch.
The game is pretty bland and niche at first glance but the combat is what makes me continue playing.
Really? I feel like the combat is easily the worst part of the game.
@@GeorgeMonet after spending 40 hrs on it. The combat is a little jank, especially from the enemies and bosses. The dodge mechanic is almost required to perform when taking on big groups of enemies so that way you could slow them all down
Totally going to just play as *naruto* thanks to the character codes they gave us and wanting to break the waifu meta.
Do you still have the codes? 👀
It's funny listening to how asmon will advocate for the casual player in other games, but then vehemently defend blizzard removing the RDF in wrath classic
it's funny listening to asmon not defending blizzard when they nerfed dragon riding
These are not contradictory viewpoints
Dude, this is not a NEW game, it was launched in late 2021 in China and got quite many problems...
Whenever i go back to windwaker and play it for some hours, i can't believe how "new" it feels like it just looks good anytime even tho it's already such an old game. Just amazing
people keep saying this game is pushing boundaries and I just dont see it
name one big innovation Tower of Fantasy has to the gacha formula or even just action RPG's
It made people not immediately see its an assetflipped genshin impact
Id say thats pretty groundbreaking
Funnily enough it's not even pushing the boundaries of P2W mechanics, totally mediocre
Pre registration doesnt mean players or people though, people often create multiple accounts for gacha games and then keep whichever one had the best beginning rolls (because rewards are heavioly front loaded)
The best way I can describe this game is that it plays like how Genshin haters think Genshin plays like. The combat is super clunky, the audio isn't configured correctly and warps, the movement is clunky, the camera is clunky. The game was heavily marketed as a Genshin killer in the early days but it is nowhere close in quality or refinement or passion, coming from a former Genshin player.
omg finally someone who gets it
Genshin is clunky garbage. Gameplay feels like ass and gacha is much worse in genshin. Whale game that doesn't even have PvP.
This game is far from perfect. The audio is really screwed up pretty often and there's a good amount of bugs.. but it's got time. Not even full release and it's more enjoyable than genshin.
I played this last night and its pretty fun. Yeah its a gacha system but they give you stuff for almost anything so 10 minutes of playing and then you realize you have enough for 10 rolls. Never played genshin so I cannot compare but its a solid 8/10 from me right now.
Yeah, but this game has actually 3 different gacha banners. Purple (low tier), Golden (mid tier) and Red (top tier). Most gachas just have 2 currencies for banners, this actually has 3
Every gacha game that I've played so far is very generous at the start to give you a sense that it's going to be like that for the entirety of the game's lifespan.
Im not saying the game is bad but the generosity at the start is very common.
That’s how they get you, free stuff early
Except it's not just early on. I've played to the current level cap and yes it does slow down, but if you keep at it and explore the zones then you'll find that you'll literally be generating the gacha currency just by opening chests or finding it tucked away in places. It's really not that hard at all to get the gacha currency in this game, although the red-tier gacha is much harder to get normally when compared to the purple and yellow tier.
@@navyblustick7758 But do the chests respawn? Exploring is a fine way to generate gacha currency except for the fact that it's a limited resource. Once you've explored everything (will take a long time considering the size of the game mind you) then that way to get gacha currency is gone.
Unless they continually add more regions but other than that you'll have to rely on events the game will (idk if it's for certain but I hope it will) have to give you a decent amount where you don't feel left behind as an f2p.
Note: Before anyone takes it the wrong way, I'm not saying the game should spoil us generously with the currency. It's a free game so they have to make money somehow, I expect and am ok with the fact they might be a bit reserved when they give it out for free. All I'm saying is I don't want f2p's struggling to clear content while the p2w can clear it no problem.
Can Genshin just sponsor Asmon now?
Another action RPG with shiny graphics and pay to win gambling?
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Where’d my controller go? I gotta try this…
It's an interesting game, it has some good things and some bad things, but it definitely has a lot of content and feels fresh.
genuine question but why does the game have a rating of 3.2 stars? Is there something wrong with it?
@@iforgot383 Well, because in China has attacked the game with Bots scoring 1 star, they are fans of Genshin Impact.
@@iforgot383 No. There is something wrong with Genshin Impact and its community of children and whiteknights. They are scared of Tower.
pre-reg to get the rewards, then piss off for a month and see if its not DOA or leveraging all of its value on FOMO. played it for about an hour, kind of left me feeling meh.
the intro didn't greatly impress me, forgetable characters, no clear motivation for why you're there or why I should be interested in playing to find out.
The VA is decent; but the mixing and editing is terrible, with sentences getting clipped off and the text not matching the voice lines.
The combat movement is good, but the animations feel a bit jank overall.
The aesthetic is good and the colors pop, but it feels like the actual texture resolution is sub-par (looks kinda...i dunno...muddy?).
the music and sound design were way to extra. dont need to bring out the horns for every little thing, and once again the mixing was terribad.
overall it just left me feeling like I was playing a really well put together asset flip. hard to describe, felt kinda souless? 100% feels like a mobile game with PC characteristics, rather than full PC release that happens to run on mobile.
The only reason I love MMOs is because the worlds are massive, the content is massive. I love games like Zelda botw and Witcher, Elden ring etc. But they are all small in comparison to MMOs. For me my dream would be a single player mmo lol. Like wow but scaled for single players, raids for single players etc. Wow is probably the biggest rpg world ever made, there’s no other game with that much content. Most open world games get like 1 dlc or 2 and are done and the great thing about MMOs is that we get content for years, the only bad thing is it’s a multiplayer
Somehow Asmon shitting on this game has kind of sold me on it? Dunno how that work's but this game is gonna be my weekend plan now.
"The hairstyles are designed to not clip the outfits"
Asmon - "So it's not like WoW"
Idk why I found this funnier than I should have
week1 - hype the game
week2 - make tons of "is this game dying?
week3 - complain
week4 - next game
The fact that Asmon ends this video by defending pay to win really shows how far he's gone.
To be fair, from what I've seen this game is "pay to get ahead" the only area where the whales win out would be PvP really.
If it's mobile and gacha, it's pay to win. There's no getting around it. I love gacha games but I'm not about to deny they are ALL pay to win.
@@animewarrior3 Actually Your characters and relics get scaled stats and are raised to 6 stars in PVP
@@fingermi7571 true. But usually the good gacha games only have that come into play in two ways. 1. Pvp. And 2. Progression.
Afk arena for example. You can never spend a cent and do perfectly fine in most of the game.
@@animewarrior3 True also. There are exceptions. There are also a handful of (mostly older) games I've seen that literally sold gear in their cash shops lol. So it can also become egregious. I think for the most part, what we see now leans more towards that side than the side of Afk Arena, and it's unfortunate.
I like genshin impact and I just knew Tower of Fantasy wasn't gonna be it for me. Let me say it wasn't fun at all. I mean the only nice thing about it was the character customization
This game shits on genshin.
The game makes me appreciate genshin even more. If 2 years later since genshin's release none other games (who were claimed to be genshin killer) achieved the same level of quality, it says something about the amount of effort put into it.
right, comparing the choose gender screen from GI and ToF make it painful obvious.
ToF choose to show their face which look like a default game model emotionless face while escape their near death situation it look stiff as stone
They copied so much of Genshin and so obviously that just looking at it was embarrassing. Then again, I've heard that in China they have no qualms copying or even plagiarizing other IPs, after all, Genshin "borrowed" a lot from Zelda BotW
@@RisqueBisquetz Lot of very good company didn't practice that and manage to pull very interesting looking one but they have so many company in China and trash one is very common. ToF company look like one.
It easy to spot one really just look at their game name it leaked of old mindset with common naming pattern.
You will find this kind of bland name that offer no uniqueness in very weak MMORPG
That why they hop on Genshin train early on.
Super Mario Odyssey had the best jiggle physics. I'd spend hours playing with the joystick pretending I was sitting on that face.
...what
"Oh big damage!" never gets old
Will the gacha system have fixed rates after (X amount of rolls) like the guaranteed Legendary after 90 rolls in Genshin?
19:30 Borderlands 2 MIGHT be the best FPS I've played since Halo 1. And Handsome Jack might just be my all time fave antagonist! If Halo and Diablo 2 had a kid, with OG WoW talent Trees, That's Borderlands 2. I suggest a steam deal on the Handsome Jack collection! Plus the views you'd get! o-0
Asmond: Oh so you can't climb that high..
The trick: Am I a joke?!
Hit lvl 27 today, so far the gacha mechanics aren't too bad. Two things really hurting the experience for me though.
1. Some bosses are just terrible. Frost Bot has a spin where he freezes those around him. You can break people out of it using fire-weapons. However, the aoe on the freeze feels like it's half the arena... it's just far too big.
2. Some exploration mechanics are time-locked. Pods, for instance, are spheres that contain loot and can only be looted a single per account. Some pods won't unlock for several RL days making you not want to do _any_ exploration until all the locks in a zone are over. I think the starter zone fully unlocks by tomorrow, but the second zone fully unlocks in about 50 more hours.
Yeah Frostbot's freeze seems to be a mechanics intended to punish the group for failing the dps check, but then there's also the problem of not enough time thawing people out of the one-shot freeze, why even put it in the first place if there's barely anytime to do it.
Hey mate its actually really cool how they set up the world like with the slowdown time if you notice the dome over the character its only slowed in that dome thats how it gets around other players near by :D
I say just play PUNISHING: GRAY RAVEN. That game is really freaking fun and F2P friendly.
Combat is so freaking fun, kinda got addicted to that alone, it hasn't eaten and destroyed my wallet. But this does look like fun and really responsive combat, hopefully you won't NEED to spend too much in comparison to F2P to make sure you progress at a proper rate and keep up with your friends. Some of my friends be whales. Maybe I can be a whale too soon, Scored a new higher paying job. Good vid.
Honkai impact 3rd is even better to play imo if you have a buffy phone and if not you can just play on pc.
PGR is incomparable to open world gacha games. They are entirely different experiences. Neither is better than the other, but you really can't compare PGR's level based gameplay to this can you?
@@shogun897 I used to play honkai way back when, but felt like I wanted to be strong, and becoming strong at the time with my impatience costed me a pretty penny for a bit. So I stopped playing as a means of controlling myself.
@@njebs. Not comparing it as overall design though, just on "satisfying combat" and PGR has been very satisfying.
@@Rhyhmx been playing for 2 months got the whole nier team and signature weapon for A2 + got enough to get another S tier character but waiting for banners. It's the most f2p friendly gacha i have played
MMO and single player are massively different, the cater to different players, they do things vastly differently. Also their priorities are different, balances ( Genshin balanced only ONCE and it was because people were little crybabies that their fave character isnt DPS, but support )
Will someone tell Asmon that right now there is no point in making online games in UE5 do to the processing demands it puts on PCs and mmo need to be playable on as many machines as possible, otherwise you will have same issues NW had where people couldn't even play the game.
Ue5 basically just ask for more expensive PCs right?
@@rajendradiaz2308 Yes basically, UE5 gives devs more "power" to create but also a lot more things to be rendered per object, same thing happened with UE4 that is why some games are only now changing to it (UE4).
14:00 Yeah agreed, do I want a cool raid with multiple people all who are good enough to do the ecounters, you get along with, have fun etc...absolutely. Do I also want to deal with the BS of finding groups, having to teach people, people who can't take responsibility for their own mess ups, toxic players etc...absolutely not, give me a single player version of the activity.
"p2w sucks but I'm down for it"
Asmon
If this is like genshin impact with its co op system that is garbino then i am all set... Infact im pretty set even now lol
@@Tigerhearty lol of course, the concept would be more interesting but in genshin its like fake progression for everyone who isnt host
@@Tigerhearty lol genshin is single player TOF is mmorpg. Gameplay is hella different. Did u even play tof 🤣
@@Tigerhearty genshit clone of zelda
Same comment with Botw, if it has a coop option
It feels like there's a bit less interesting hair for male characters but it's still more in depth than I expected
when asmon explains shit about mmo, it really made a lot of sense to me. It's like he understands me.
Yeah it is hard for me to even play a mmo without a public dungeon que after playing xiv and how they handle dungeons and raids to enter a game now without that is a quit consideration for me. Especially if they lock the advance gear progression behind dungeons and raids.
I'm glad my Internet is shit and takes forever to download this game cuz otherwise I think I would become addicted to it.
The servers on latino america are crap, for me a game in 2022, have no escuse to have crap servers, but i think even with good internet, no, the combat is the same as honokai and the rest is genshin
Tower of Fantasy is made by a different company than Genshin Impact but it is “inspired” by a mobile game that the Genshin company (miHoYo) also made which is called Honkai Impact 3rd. The latter is mobile only and is probably this game’s main competitor or vice versa.
theres honkai on pc to
ToF does not feel P2W at all.
It's imo the tames of all the Gacha games that I played
How come Asmon is willing to play Tower of Fantasy but not Genshin? Both are open world gacha games.
because this is new and he can ride the hype a bit then ditch it. Genshin is old news now
He already stated that he is interested in Genshin but would only play if Mihoyo sponsors him.
I think because,
Genshin is a single player with coop while ToF is mmorpg
@@MoonTurky youre sad man.
Asmongold's great plan to get Genshin to sponsor him
Lazypeon is handsome. damn. I never knew what he looked like
Can anyone explain what this gacha system this is ?
So far so good. Have only played it for several hours and already got those 5 star characters... But time will tell if those 5 stars that are easy to get at the start become nerfed in favour of harder to get characters or if levelling the characters is difficult
This game is standing on the shoulders of Genshin Impact
Prolly targeting Genshin players who are tired of waiting for new content. And sense those players already like genshin they are pretty much predisposed to likeing tower of fantasy since it is so similar. Plus i think people said the same thing of Genshin comparing it to Zelda breath of the wild and that did not stop it from becoming obscenely popular and to make disgusting amounts of money
It's not even close to genshin's quality
please someone answer me why is he not reacting to the latest ashes of creation update. and why I cant find his streams on twitch any more. PLEASE
To be fair f2p ur basically getting 2 SSRs guaranteed if you finish the innate starting bonuses.
"there's a lot of customisation" ..... U say what? The customisation is fucking bare minimum !!!!!!! Absolutely NOTHING to yell hurray for :/
I played the game for a while... but the lack of people wanting to do what I needed to do was a killing point. Fun game but no incentive to join people for stuff... felt worse than soloing d2-3 start to finish.. was perty but boring.
Right so I checked the website and oh look premium currencies, "up to 59 draws" sounds like gatcha pulls and some random cosmetics. That's a no from me.
so basically its just a combined genshin and honkai impact
BBut honokai has better combar, i dont know why because honokai in mi phone run smooth and fast in these one, runs like crap, lagg an totaly slow, no, i dont like it, HOnoka run much much better and smooth the only moments i have problems with lag in honokai, was in some events, but some review said that the story mode run ok but new events dont, also acording to some review honokai run better some years ago compare with now
@@alexandrebelair4360 Yes i know, that is why when i finish testing genshing yes i install, the suppose best mobile gatcha game in mobile, and i see why, yes credit where credit is due, yes Tower of Fantasy, is more grafically demanding and looks amaizing, it is beautifull, yes, Honokai and Genshin are not, Genshing dont have the same texture and also Genshing is not an MMO, is a single player open world, and that is why Genshing is better, it can run smooth, and is not complex, Tower of fantasy needs the best and last phones to work its main audience, and it requires the best to run smooth, so if they have sacrifice grafic for fluidity, would have better i dont care if the game looks amaizing if it goes with lag
The fact that you have to wait for a cast just to open a chest is very off putting.
The only question I need answered for this game is "Why play this over Genshin Impact?"
more combat? I personally am not attracted to ToF but some people will play ToF because of combat.
ill actually try this over genshin because of the sci-fi elements. not a fan of the whole eastern lore of genshin
Combat, exploration & traversal, and co-op
Genshin end game is legit, grind dungeons for perfect rolls to then again do it for another character pretty much...While I won't say this is better game wise..This seems to have a wayy better endgame and multiplayer overall. So just the multiplayer on it's own is a good reason to play this over genshin.. And I love genshin but it got to the point of nothing to do but dailies every day while I wait the 2 months for new content.
Its for people that like mmorpg not a coop
Oh look another soon to be failed MMO that no one will be talking about a few months (or less) after release.
I have test it and the combat is not as good as honokai so killing genshing, no, i would go less than a month
@@Krysnha It's a free to play mmo anime gacha... It Will NOT die in a month. At the least, it will die in 2 years unless they don't update it at all. Genshin will continue to thrive just like this will. This has more to do than Genshin ever thought of. (As a player with 800 hours on that) Edit: Compared to Genshin's restrictive multiplayer aspect, this one is leagues better on multiplayer aspect which will keep some players.
I hope the hype dies fast yeah
@@Swat6249 bro this game literally died within a week in China, I was day 1 cn player and I dropped the game within a month. The official of this game in bilibili has its follower dropped from over a million to 850k within 2 weeks after it released and still maintain that number today. This is no genshin quality nor genshin killer by any means.
@@eugene2245 im actually interested to try out this game, can you tell me some reason why you drop this game? And what makes it inferior to genshin? Let us hear your opinion as a day 1 player in full
This looks like Genshin Impact meets PSO2 NGS
I rather wait for Bandai Namco to make one of these without the gacha cancer
Most Zelda fans typically consider Twilight Princess to be the best. Windwaker did age well, but Twilight Princess has done even better.
is a pretty good game
is he gona stream the game in his main channel ?
The game will be hype for now but maybe 2-3 months later it will slowly die down caz it hardcore heavy game. I won’t be playing it because it has pvp in there which means there are meta and unbalance characters which also means p2w if u don’t have the characters that are the current meta once they go away. One of the reason why I hate about about lost ark and stop playing not because of the p2w aspects but because of the classes are not balance at all.
But you can just not play the PVP tho. I agree that the PVP is most likely gonna be p2w, but it's not forced on you. I think the reward for the bottom rank and the top rank is 100 and 500 crystals, it's hardly worth it to push just for the reward unless you actually enjoy the PVP. I don't see why it's become the reason to not play the game, I think it's just a small part of the game. Unless you also don't like the rest of the game too, then it's fair.
my tof launcher keep redownload the game...is this a bug..cant even resume...keep redownloading from beginning..
Yea i enjoy MMOs but because they are expensive to make there really hasn't been much deviation on how it's done in decades or a few outliers that are garbage that didn't have a proper budget to begin with.
10:10 asking the real question
Much better than Genshin for me. I like that we can make a character. And I'd much rather just play my character then swap between pre set game characters.
The characters look like fish out of water honestly, this cyberpunk design doesn't match this landscapes full of nature. I'd expect a futuristic city...
17:11 Gorefist in Vrising
I can't believe they released genshin impact 2
It's not even close
@@Jev_the_fluorescent_shrimp Its literally the same gacha system aswell as equipment leveling
@@csseldne2326 so? It's the system of most gachas
Nevertheless tof doesn't have such a well-written story, massive lore, endearing characters, unique and diverse environmental design, amazing music. Genshin does have all of this, every detail matters in genshin.
Combat system in tof is also not very comfortable, quite boring even... Genshin's one is far superior.
So.....
I've never heard of it either but I don't make female characters. I think they might be limiting their player base.
Yoooo I've been pre registered to this game and it just came out! Made my character and everything lol
Man they even used the same exact gimmick for picking between male/female MC as Genshin.
Woah alright I guess genshin owns the gender thing now in games huh
@@mailadelrosario9462 You didn't know that? Genshin invented genders!
@@kugelblitznb1682 I guess you could say the community did 😂
@@mailadelrosario9462 The gimmick I'm referring to is not having male or female MC. It's having a short action sequence with an explosion set up the premise in the game where the male and female MC get blown away and separated, asking you to pick one.
@@del46_60 Isn't that pretty normal? I guess every game who does that is now a genshin ripoff 🤔
I just got two ssr starting the game. A girl with a ring weapon and a another with the ice staff pretty cool to me
This games got water boarding?!?!, Count me in! *Fortunate Sun intensifies*
I'm just guessing but is this made by the same company that made genshin? The terrain of the world, the textures of the world the power progression system, visual effects, dungeon system all look exactly like genshin.
Its not, but its VERY "inspired" by it.
The just copied everything but failed to make it great like genshin did
This game is just genshin impact with sci-fi vibes, definitely not what I'd called an "mmo"
I play the game for two hours, is very mid, i dont know if was a bug, but the FPS drop like crazy, which is funny when i can run RDR2 without a problem.
i got 120 fps consistently, on a rx 6600, are u playing on PC?
@@thomasre9382 Yes, i play on a GTX 1660, never had a problem with games in Unreal Engine 4, i dont know if was the busy server's or something else.
20 bucks says this game will be forgotten in a month.
I made already the two first regions exploration.
I'm gonna end the third today.
I don't see many men getting past waifu customization screen anytime soon!
Kid free weekend, downloading this, steak and few stubby beers chillax
I give it a 6/9
Test it, mi phone can run Honokai impact no problem, and is two years old, and these thing in a server, that was low, maybe they didint put as much intrest in south american server, but lag, choopy, the combat is no where near as good as honokai, is not bad, but these high launching a game that is not optimal in all the servers is not good
Now i cant say im F2P since i bought the battlepass. But honestly if one does not have a constant urge to spend money, its actually a fine game to put a few hours a day, and it certainly scratches that itch of completionist for me, tho i find the timegating annoying yet understand why it is implemented, because there are people would would nolife it and clear the entire game in two days :D. tho a F2P player should not expect to have all the best items, and be top tier in pvp, in pve as well naturally a whale will carry a f2p and would be higher dps, this is a gatcha game IT IS P2W thats the whole thing the game is made around. still its a fine game to sink some hour in till something else comes out, and maybe maaaaybe stick around if it does not get worse.